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RAY KILLEN Simple Kayak Navigation
Use GPS to plan routes and determine heading, speed, and position. Make sense of nautical charts and maps. Interpret brouys, lights, and other aids to navigation. Make the best use of both deck-mounted and handheld compasses. Use tides and currents to your advantage. Ray Killen is an American Canoe Association-certified coastal kayak instructor and the former chair of its Coastal Kayaking Committee. Paperback; 135 pages; 9 x 7 in.
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Learn practical, easy-to-use techniques for navigating the sea safely and confidently In Simple Kayak Navigation, kayaking instructor Ray Killen explains everything you need to know about plotting your course for a safe and smooth sea adventure. He teaches you dozens of essential navigation procedures specially adapted to the needs of sea kayakers. Killen's simple, easy-to-learn navigational methods will help you determine your position, ensure your safety, and keep you on track. Emphasizing...
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Use GPS to plan routes and determine heading, speed, and position. Make sense of nautical charts and maps. Interpret buoys, lights, and other aids to navigation. Make the best use of both deck-mounted and hand-held compasses. Use tides and currents to your advantage.
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Fundamentals of Kayak Navigation
Everything you need to know, in simple terms. Covers tides, currents, landing strategies, GPS. Everything you would ever need to know, and more! This belongs in every paddler's library.
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"Written specifically for kayakers and their special needs and conditions. Practical navigation methods explained in simple terms with the minimum theory required for understanding. New sections on ice navigation, electronic navigational aids, and a thorough approach to reading charts."
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There are exercises suggested at the end of the chapters. Make use of them they will ensure that what you have read is understood and remembered. The ultimate test of whether or not the lessons have been absorbed is the first time you plan and execute a trip relying on your own navigation. Take precautions; plan simple trips and aim for big targets to start with. Ask someone more experienced to check your calculations the first few times. Try and get someone else on the trip to plan it independently...
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"I recieved my order very fast and exactly as ordered. Excellent service and good prices. Thank you for shipping to Canada, so many others don't for some reason. Keep up the good work. I'll definately be back. ....Cheers.....AL."
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Simple yet sophisticated, the Brunton Nomad Digital Compass offers a wide array of features with a simple, user friendly interface. Features include a backlit digital display, an "off-course" indicator, variable magnetic declination (which allows the compass to be used anywhere in the world) as well as a bubble level to ensure accurate and consistent readings time and again. Batteries are included and the unit weighs 3.6 oz.
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